Gen Urobuchi Quotes

I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

Gen Urobuchi

• Soul
• Happiness
• Choice
• Characters
• Tragedy
• Contempt

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Dad

• It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Children
  • Eye

• I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Parents

• I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Long
  • Live
  • Job

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Environment

• For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Heart
  • Church

• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

  

  Ben Jonson

• 'He was one of the most spectacular shooters the game has ever known. I hear people talking about forwards today and I haven't seen many that can compare with him.'

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • People
  • Today
  • Game

• Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Search

• The whole 'SmackDown' roster has a chip on its shoulder.

  

  Jinder Mahal

• If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Why

• It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Great
  • Done
  • Science

• If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• All it really takes to fall in love with a script is to understand, right off the bat, one piece of the story.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Fall

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  

  Gen Urobuchi
  • Soul
  • Happiness
  • Choice